The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

ONEY MARKEi AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market, to-day, has been quiet, with a steady business on previous terms. About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. There was no alteration in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £203,100, while the exports have been to the extent of £627,300. Letters from Madrid of the 25th February state that a project of law regarding the Passive Debt has been deposited in the Cortes that will put an end to the unfortunate conflict existing between Spain and the holders of the bonds of the said debt in France. A. telegraph despatch of the 9th inst. advises that the project of law, after being read in public sitting, has been taken into consideration by the Chamber." The Stock Exchange Committee has appcinted settling days in the shares of the following com panies, viz. :—Financial Corporation (Limited), and London and Italian, and Adriatic Steam Naviga tion (Limited), to be marked ; Fairbairn Engineer ing (Limited), to be marked in the Twice a-Week List ; National Discount (Limited), new shares, to ba marked. The committee have ordered the B Shares of the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway to be marked in the Twice a- Week List. The directors of the London and South American Bank have convened their first ordinary meeting, to receive the report and to declare a dividend. The National Provincial Marine Insurance Com pany is rapdly advancing towards completion, and thed irectors are on the eve of closing their applica tion list. Shares were iu demand to-day at 14 to 14 pm. M. E. Mavrogordato, Esq., has joined the board of directors, and brings to bear considerable influence in the interests of this company. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Renter opened at 66fr 45c., 66fr. 50c. Firm. There has been a steady business to-day in the market for the English Funds, and the quotations have not undergone any material variation, Con sols being 911 1 for transfer, end 911 1 for the account. Dealings have taken place in the New Threes, at 89 a ; the Reduced Annuities, at 891 ; Exchequer Bills, par; India Stock, 219Q 7 do. 5 per Cents., 1041 ; Eufaced 51 per Cents., 1131; and the Debentures, 991. There has been general firmness in the principal speculative Foreign Stocks, and business has been more active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 691 4 ; do. Consolides, 511 4 ; Mexican, 42! 3 ; Greek, 23 1; do. Coupons, 101 a ; Spanish Passive, 361 B ; do. Certificates, 131 141; Portuguese, 471 481 ; Italian, 661 67 ; and the Confederate Loan, 44 46. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been very limited and quotations have not varied to any important extent. London, Chatham, and Dover, and South Eastern have improved about 55., While Bristol and Exeter have declined 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little variation. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares exhibit rather less firmness. London and County are at 564, London Joint Stock, 401 ; London and Westmin ster, 80 ; Credit Foncier are quoted 11 2 prem. Credit Mobilier, 4 11 prem. ; Imperial Financial, 38 3 7-, prem. ; Queensland Sheep Company, 4 11 prem. ; and Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company, 2 1 3 1 prem. ; National Provincial Marine Insur ance are quoted 11 11 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols 9 ll Ditto Account, April 8 .... 94 3 per Cent. Reduced . New 3 er B9 Exchequer t Exchequer 8e..... 89 t i ills, £1,000,. 2I & er Cent. Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan , 1880 Ditto for 30 yrs, expi Ditt o r e sth April, 1885. 144 ex div Ditto £500 Bank £loo and £2OO England Stk, 4f pe r Ct., l ast h f.-yr• 238 Iran tar GoVERNNIENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent. April 1874 2l9f Ditto 5 per Cent. July, " 1870 Ditto Account .• c . .. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — Ditto 5f per Cent., May, 1879 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 991 Ditto B on d s £l,OOO die D itto under £1,000 .. ... • -- FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent itto Brazilian D 5 per rent 1859 Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 RDitto Scrip, £55 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .......... Ditto Account.... .......... — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Uhilian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 pet Ce nt — Colombian 6 Scrip £BO pd; — die Danish 3 per C en t., 1825 Equ.ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent...... Ditto, Second Issue .. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account 22! Ditto Coupons Mexi Ditto Account .. f Italia can 3 n 5 per C er ent. (Maremmana Railw a y) p Cent tto Account 43 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. P iedmontese; 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — p m Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4 B} 71 Russian 5 per Cent~ 1822, £ St Ditto 5 per C en t, 1862 B9 S irdinian 6 per Cent Ditto Account .... Spanish 3 p er C ent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account , unl Ditto Passive Ditto Account 361 61 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account 914 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent .... 100 Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. 244 3/ Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account .... 60 a 60 Dividends on the above payable in Lond Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 634 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs Ditto Account 664 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto April Ac coun t .... 91a Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, 314. les about 4,000 bales. No change. Imports, - - - _ RERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION.—The polling eon)• rneneed yesterday morning in the different districts at eight o'clock, and from the commencement the Conser vative candidate, Mr. Sartees, was in a majority. At ten o'clock, when the first return was made, the numbers were : Surtees, 460 ; Cowper, 447; majority, 13. Twelve o'clock— Surtees, 1,337; Cowper, 1,256; majority, 81. Two o 'clock—Surtees, 1,923; Cowper, 1,726 ; majority, 197. Five o'clock (close of the poll)—Surtees, 2,272 ; Cowper, 2,017; majority, 255. The of f icial declaration of the poll will be made on Monday. th tai? SAVOY PALACE, —Th e site extending from part of Wellington-street, Strand, leading to Wat erloo-bridge, a point further to the east than the print ing establishment of The Sun newspaper, was formerly occupied by a mansion, called the Savoy Palace. It was built in the reign of Henry 111., by Peter, Earl of Savoy, and a p ecu li ar interest attaches to its memory, from its hav ing been the prison of John, King of France, when brought to England by the Black Prince, after the battle of Pole tiers, in 1356, Here, after many years of lingering captivity, this unfortunate monarch breathed his last. The Savoy Palace was subsequently converted into a hospital; and George I. used it as a place of confinement for deserters. One of its gothic windows, partly in ruins, still remained until the year 1816, wh en it was pulled down to make room for the new street. SHARE MARKETS,--This day, Share Railways. 13.14 Bir. Vol., and Str. Val, Blythe and Tyne. ti ost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Uo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 3ork and Bandon Jornwall )o A A gets no dig Do. B till 6p c.p an.hat. aid to B. Dublin & e Belfast Juno. Dun.,PertholzAb. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. ilasg. and S. Western. 3- reatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st lreatNorthot 3reat 3rthern.. •• • • .1)o A stook 8 Si 9 83 ES 120 121 Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelan Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blaekwal: Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 4 shares Jletropoll tan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby tßd. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock • Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews, and Welohpooi Shropshire Union 1 South Devon.. ...... 1 South Eastern 'l.lB. South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok. Stockton .k Darlington Do Do New, MG Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do 12.10 Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenn West Cornwall 6 7 36 $8 16 17 92 94 106 109 46 47 125 126 1271 128 132 134 91 16 611 642 1091 109, 68 70 10Z 103 40 42 107 107; 99 100 51 52 1074 108 120 lA, 100 all all all all 100 100 100 16.13,4 96 98 52 64 24 26 1001 100; 65; 61 88 83 125 128 1 .2 77i 781 1(4 11 123 126 1' 44 98 100 634 61 3 / 4 S 4 26 904 el 100 102 i 9i 37 38 9 10 r, 7 8 163 H 5 5 6 • 3 34 p 91 91 W. Hartlepool Ilar.&11. Weat Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 22 24 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Paid.! Closing Businest, Price. I done. 46i I I 1264 5f 128 401 107* 7 98/ n 8j 108 f 126 f 90/ f BRITISH Y Railways dintio & St Lawrenc( Bom.,Baroda(t.Cent Inc Gu. 5 per oent... Do. New ... Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laae Huron Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant,dtGodrich 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1871 Clcutta.et S. Eastn. Cape Town 4,- Dock Scrii Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. e. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... G t.lndiaPenln.gua.sp.o Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1852 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .... ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.. .. Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. C. .. Do. If p. o. Extension De.4i d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. A p. o. Bnds. 3lelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. Newßr unswick Cands Class A and B. .. N.Rl.C'das pa Ist p 1 bds Scinde .......... Do. Delhi. I ci4g Do. do Do. Punjaub (a ct Do. Do. ........ Do. Indus. St. Flo.) , LONIAL GOVER p.c.J a ‘tJ uly 1877-84 . ....... Do. 0 p. c. Do. d p. c. Mar. Jr Sept. Do. p. o. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6 p .2,1873 Do.Ap &Oct. 188oi Do. 1811( I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p c ,Mauritius 6 per cent .. , Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. a.&July Do. 6 p.U.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov 5 p„18no Du. 5 p. c.,18,/1 to L7l Do. d0.,1888' dtupwdi 'New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gcv. 6 p. c S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July iDo. io An.aoot,.. ISIONS. Closing Price. 60 /2 104 10 11 p 1 p p 25; p 61 7e 81 101 103 103 105 1051 1061 104 105 19i 20i 74 16 51 61 66 64 50 53 49 51 33 12 26 28 22 C 5 1031 104 i 103 104 94 IC 11 101 r; 92 94 85 87 P in 1u24 103 i 97 99 96 55 58 3 5 82 S 4 103 104 102} 103} 102} Wu} 98 103 T SECURITIES, 101 103 1M 102 99 101 90 12 89 91 106 108 108 110 110 112 110 111 111 111 ;06 108 1 ( .8 110 LOI 103 .10f 111 BRITISH MI Cambrian Consol. Gold chilord Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon East Cara Brea... I E. W*l Russ el (TavistiC) (larn.ctSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolg - us IG. Wheal Vor (Ideleton) !Grenville I H end's-Foot .0,, • tlingston Downs Lady Bertha Slargaret (Coy Lelant Marke Valley.. Nlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ' New Seton North Downs N. Wh 'I Basset (1110 zan North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze) ;! Providence (Uny Lelnt.) I South Caradon(St.Cleer, S. Cam Brea (Illogan) IS.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park ! Tamar Silv.& Lead Kin I Gin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W Cr radon (Liskeard) West Setoff •••• Wheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Bulleratedruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLudcott ...... Wheal IllaryAnn ;Men.) Wheal Oeton ......... . Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) Wheal Union 1.14. ti 3.4.0 8.9.0 40 d. 16. 8.12 4.18.0 2.8.6 4.3.0 2i 193 3.1.0 2.6.9 10.6.7 18.18.9 30.17.6 47 5 10 2.0.6 3.0.8 8 58i 3.17 / Jcl 31 SO 570 680 65 70 30f 31f 7 7i 4} 4} tO 11 4 4f 36 37 7 65 3 7 4 4f 17 19 Of 7 81 1i 85 Idi If 2 2 2/ 44 46 440 160 65 60 26 J9i 12 21 183 87& 31 20 12 23 195 92i 37 2i 3 13i 14i 175 185 2 i 24 2} 2f 37 9i 13i 195 200 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 107 Great Western Orig. 46 per cent. pl., 97 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 9718 Midland 46 per cent. pf. stk. rd., 1026 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 96 per cent., red., 09 Stockton and Darlington, C 6 per cent., 33 Ditto, B, 0 p r cent., 33 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., Ditto, new 5 per eent&li London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 981 99 Stockton and Darlington, Class D. pf., 28} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and:Southend, 100 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Fella and San Francisco (11m.) gus. 7 per spent, 16! Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), FOREIGN MINE& Alamillos, limited, I Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21:i Yudauaniutana of S. Australia, lim., 3 JOINT-STOCK BANK& Alliance (Urn.), Ditto, new, 33} Bank of Egypt, 261 Bank of London. 165} Bank of Otago, lim., 4 British North American, 48} Consolidated Bang, lim., English and Irish (lim.), 14 i t European Bank, lim., 81 9 81 9 Hindustan, Onus, and Japan (lim.). Ditto, new, issued at 2pm 7} 81 Imperial Bank (lim.), 27 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, I)itto, new, 5 . London and County, 571 71 61: London Joint Stock, 40} London and South African, 27 London and South-Western (lira.), 14 f London and Westminster, 80 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 23} Midland Bank (lim.), 14} New South Wales, 50 Oriental Bana Corporation. 61,E 2 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Bin., 10} f i Ditto, new, 10 Union of Australia, 531 Ditto, new, 481 l DOCKS. Southampton, 71f MISCELLANEOUS. Ant:Jo-Mexican Mint, 201 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 21 Commercial Union (Insurance), 9i Contract Corporation, lim., ti t Crystal Palace, Ditto, pref., 114 Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb. 113 East India Irrigation and canal, 31 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 41 Gen. Cr( dit and Finance of Lonaon, bi n ., 7 ; Hudson's Bay, 18 International Financial Society, 12 114 Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam, lim., 8 Ditto, new, 51 London Financial Association, 11111., 25 4 . 4 London Provincial Marine, 31 National Discount Company, lira., 111 4 Quebrada Land, Rail., and Mining, iii Scottish Australian investment, Paid. all 100 TIM SUN, LONDON, SATEIRDA.Y EVENING, MARCH 12, 1864. ELECTION COMMITTEES—(This Day), This morning the committees appointed to inquire into the validity of the Berwick-upon-Tweed and Lisburn elec tions assembled for the second time. In each case evidence was taken with a view to show that the agents of the sitting member—Mr. Cargill in the case of Berwick-upon- Tweed, and Mr.AVernon, in Lisbure —were returned by means of bribery. The only noticeable feature connected with the proceedings this morning was the pre sence of a large number of women—some of them with babies in their arms, who had been brought from Ireland to give evidence. No result may be expected in either case until Tuesday or Wednesday. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) His Honour disposed of a short list of causes ; the only case of the slightest interest being BE LUSCOMBE. This bankrupt had carried on business at the Thatched House, Exchange-court, Strand, and the important feature in the case was, that the debts were only £B3 6s. 3d., and the assets realised amounted to £125. It appeared from the statement of Mr. W. H. Griffith, the bankrupt's counsel, that the bankrupt had been grossly imposed upon as to the value of the place, and had brought an action for the false representation, and recovered £l2O damages, which had been paid into court. The bankrupt having taken proceed ings in bankruptcy, had lost £195, which he paid on going in. His Honour granted an immediate order of discharge to bankrupt of the balance, and also on the payment of fees, which amounted, after payment et court fees, to £ll 14s sd. RE PAZEY. In this case. which was adjourned a few days since, his Honour intimated yesterday that judgment would not be delivered until after Easter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CRUEL ROBBERY.—William Thrift, a lad, was charged as follows; Mary Ann Emery, a widow, living in Hayes-court, Newport-market, said that about 11 o'clock, while return ing from borrowing some money to pay her rent, she was nearly knocked down by a cab in Coventry-street, and the prisoner and another man helped her to a doorway. On recovering herself she gave them some drink. The pri soner then walked home with her, she holding her purse in her hand in her pocket till she got near Newport-market. when she withdrew her hand from her pocket. The pri soner still accompanied and left her at her door. She sat up ironing for some hours, and on going to her pocket to get some money to buy bread for her children, she found her purse, containing eight half-crowns, gone. James Stephens, 24 0, said that on taking the prisoner into custody that morning at the place where he lived, he said that if the prosecutrix did not press the charge he would give her the money back again. Mr. It nox remanded the prisoner, THAMES. THE GOOD NATURED IRISHMAN.—John Yealey, a car. man, in the service of Mr. Hickmott, builder, in the Mile. end-road, was brought up on remand before Mr. Pagel charged with committing a violent and dangerous assault on Martin Reardon, an Irishman, of 133, Great Suffolk. street, Southwark. The complainant has received a very serious injury which will affect him during the remainder of his life. His nose was bound up with surgical plaisters. The certificate of Mr. Robert Hunter, house surgeon of the London Hospital, stated that Reardon was admitted there on Monday last with a compound fracture of the nasal bones. On Monday last the prosecutor was driving a horse and cart along High street, Whitechapel, towards London. The prisoner was proceeding in the same direction in charge of a wag gon and two horses. He was riding sideways on the leading horse of his team. The oft wheel of Reardon's (prosecutor) curt got close to the prisoner's toes, but did not touch them. The prisoner immediately struck Reardon across the face with the butt end of the handle of a heavy cart whip, and smashed his nose. The poor fellow was knocked backwards and became insensible. He bled from the nostrils all the remainder of the day and all Monday night. The whip handle was ferruled and very heavy. Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, on the part of the defendant, said Reardon's statement was substantially correct, and no one could regret the unfortunate occurrence more than the prisoner, who struck the complainant in the heat of passion. The prisoner stopped his team, and assisted Reardon into a doctor s shop. The blow was intended for the complain ant's back, not his face. The prisoner was riding a very dangereus and vicious horse, and the complainant's cart came so near to it that he was afraid the horse would be injured. The prisoner was a steady, sober man, with an excellent character, and his master would see that Reardon was compensated. The horse was unmanageable, end would not go without it was ridden. Mr. Paget thought it was a most novel and extraordinary proceeding for a man to ride an unmanageable horse side ways. The prisoner had been guilty of a most violent and unjustifiable assault. He would allow the parties to come to some arrangement. The prisoner was unable or unwilling to make compensa tion, and was remanded. When brought up again he was bailed. It was now announced that a compromise had been effected. Mr. Paget did not want to know the terms, and fined the prisoner a shilling. Yealey was without one, and the Irish man lent him one to pay the penalty, and said he forgave the prisoner from the bottom of his heart, and had not the least animosity against him. The doctor Baia he would not be able to return to his work for three weeks, and be had only asked the prisoner to pay £3, his three weeks' salary, which he had consented to do. WESTMINSTER. IMPUDENT ROBBERY Or A HORSE CLOTit.---Matthew Slaney, a boy about 12 years of age, was charged with stealing a horse-cloth from a eab in Tothill•street, West minster. William Kennedy, a little boy, said that he was in Tothill•street on Thursday, and saw the prisoner and an other boy watching a cab that a little girl was minding. After walking about for some time the other boy covered the prisoner by getting between him and the girl while he took the cloth. He ran away with it. Witness told the owner of the cloth, and the boy was chased but lost sight of, Maria Lambert, a person living at 48, Tothill-street, said her husband's cab was standing at the door on Thurs day, and she looked out of the window and saw prisoner take the cloth off the horse and run away with it while another covered him. She ran down stairs and pursued him, but lost sight of him. On Friday morning she again saw him, with the cloth under his arm going about from place to place to try and sell it. She pursued him, and he again escaped her, upon which she gave information to the police. Sergeant Edmund Buckley, 17 B, proved apprehending the prisoner, from information received that morning, in Old Pye-street, Westminster. He was taken to the station, and witness placed him with other boys, and he was iden tified by Kennedy and Mrs. Lambert. He said to witness, " It is not my fault ; a bigger boy told me to take it.'! Mr. Selfe asked him what he had to say ? Prisoner said that he had taken the cloth, but had been incited by a man and boy to do it. They had sold the cloth, but had not given him any share of the money. He was remanded till Thursday for the sergeant to make inquiries, CONSUMPTION OF COAL. —At the last sitting of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, M. Dalloz gave the following interesting particulars on the consumption of coal :—ln 1789 France consumed 500,000 tons of coal, 220,000 of which were imported; in 1811 the quantity was 773,000 tons; in 1830 it rose to 1,800,000 tons, and in 1847 to 7,600,000 tons, 2,500,000 of which wore im ported. During the four following years—those of the Republic—there was a considerable diminution, the extraction in France being reduced to 4,000,000 tons, and the importation to 2,100,000 tons. In 1853 the consumption rose to 9,400,000 tons, and in 1859 to 12,400,000 tons. In 1863, the third year after the Conventions of 1860, the quantity consumed was 15,00,000 tons, 5,200,000 of which were imported, showing the immense increase of manufactures during a period of tranquillity and order, At the commencement of the pre sent century England produced 13,000,000 tons; in 1838 the quantity rose to 26,000,000 tons. England alone pro duces much more than half the coal extracted throughout the world. The production of coal in the United States is valued at 16,000,000 tons; that of Belgium at 9,000,000; the Zollverein produced upwards of 14,000,000 tons in 1862 ; so that, if England be omitted, France is one of the richest coal-producing countries in the world. The production of coal is intimately con nected with that of iron, in which article England again holds the first rank. In 1789 France only produced 9,000 tons of cast iron. This quantity rose to 115,000 tons in 1812; in 1830, to 317,773 tons of cast iron and 237,379 of wrought iron; in 1847 the figures were respec tively 602,772 and 376,686; in 1850 the production bad fallen to 406,000 tens of cast iron and 246,000 tons of wrought iron. A new . rise occurred immediately after the Republic; in 1859 France produced 856,000 tons of cast iron and 520,000 of wrought iron; and in 1863 is vaguely stated at the enormous figure of 1,180,000 tons of cast iron and 705,500 tons of wrought iron. rhe production of Eng land is nearly 4,000,02,0 tons of cast iron; that of the Zollverein, 591,593 tons; of Sweden, 143,000; of Austria, 270,000; and of Belgium, 161,000.—Galignani. A HARDY VENTURE.—A few days back a fishing smack named the John Bull, of 26 tons burden, left Yar mouth port for Constantinople with a general cargo. She has been purchased for Mr. Norton, of the latter place, and had on board four experienced fishermen of Yarmouth, being intended for the trawling trade in the Black Sea. A large number of the seafaring population collected on the quay to witness her departure and wish her success on her venturesome voyage. BURKE TS—TIAis Day, COVENT GARDEN. The supply of produce at our market to-day was, for the time of year, moderate. There was a fair business doing at about stationary prices. The following are the leading quotations. YRITIT. S. d. s. a. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 5 0 to 10 0 t Foreign do 1 6 t o 2 6 I Melons . 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 ! Apples, per hf-sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Pears, per do 5 0 to 10 0 Oranges, per 100..3 6 to 8 01 Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hf eve° 0. to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 d. s d Mulberrimprpt..o oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 1 3to 1 6 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 .0• Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0 Peaches.. . Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per d 6 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 VEGETAIILEs: - Greens, dz bunch 6 oto 7 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 1 oto 1 9' Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 1 - {"id ditto 0 OSo 0 0 1 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 10 to 1 9 , Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 9 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 2 6 , Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli, per bus. 0 Bto 1 0, Parsnipl, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 60 oto 95 0 1 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr pt 1 oto 0 01 Mushrooms.p ptl. 0 9to 1 3 Turnips, dz bunch 3 6to 4 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do J 6to 5 6 Cos lett, score .. 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 10 oto 0 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz !Inds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas,ll.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 } Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0( Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6to 2 6 ) Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0': Rhubarb, per bun 0 9to 1 6 Spinach 0 oto 0 0 ; Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Brussels sprouts 0 OSo 0 0 seakale, per bun. 1 3to 2 0 POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 8s Od ; geese, Os Od to Os Od each; goslings, 6s to 8s Od ; ducks 3s Od to 3s 6d ; ducklings, 3s Od to 5s Od; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each; wild do., lld to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os IJd each; Surrey fowls, 10s Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 75 Od to lOs Od; barn-door fowls, Os to Os Od ; 3s Od to 6s Od ; capo ns , O s Od ; h ares , 3 s 6d to O s Od ; ptarmigan, is 3d to I s 6d eac h ; pheasant's, partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s to Os Od; snipes, 9d to is Od; teal, is 3d to Os Od ; wild ducks, 2s 6d to Os Od ; widgeons, is 3d to Os Od ; plovers, Os 8d to Os 10d each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to.Os Od ; roas ting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butte r , Os lld to is 2d ; English, is 2d to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, 7s 6d to lOs Od ; French do., 6s Od to 9s Od per 100 ; leverets, 1 . 11 Od to 3s 6d ; grouse, Os Od to Os Od. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, is 6(1 to Is 10d ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d prawns, Os • pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, Od to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to lOs Od ; brills, 2s Od to 6s Od; doreys, 5s Od to 5s 6(1; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d; lobsters, is to 3s Od; crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 3d to 3s Od per pair; common oysters, 18s to 245; natives, 65s to 70s per bushel ; whitings, 2s Od to 5s • haddocks, 6s to 12s ; smelts, 0$ Od to O s Od ; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, Os per 100 ; fresh herrings, 7s to 8s per 100; bloaters, Os to Os per 100; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od , mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 38 2d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. WHITECJIAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d per 81ba by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are fron? . 61cl to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2ld to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3#d; 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 4d; 881 b to 961 b, 31d to 41d; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 41d ; 1041 b to 1121 b, —d to —d. Horse hides, 9s 6d to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 12s Od to 14s Od ; half-breds, 10s Od to 12s Od ; Downs, 8s Od to 9s 9d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; aheallings, Is 8d to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 3s to £1 10s per load. Moderate supply—trade slow. GUMBERLAND.--Mea4OW nay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, 2s to £1 lOs per load. Trade dull. WRITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 Os to £1 10s per load. A slow demand. COAL MARKET. Prfoes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. a. d. Buddle's'West Hartley 16 3 Cowpen Hartley 15 3 Hastings Hartley l5 3 North Pelton Gas 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0- Wylam 17 0 Eden Main ..17 61 Walls End. Haswell . .19 0 Braddyll's Hetton 18 0 Hartlepool lB 9 . South Hetton 19 0 K elloe ... South Kelloo 18 0 Tunstall Heugh Hall 18 0 Hetton 18 6 Harton 15 6 )t, 51; sold, 49. Walls End. Stewart's 18 6 South Hartlepool 17 6 Ships at market SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon—South. Weat ; light breeze, and fine weather. COWES, March 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Boadicea., from London for Pernambuco, with lose of jibboom, and other damage. NEWPORT, March 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rising Sun, from London for New York, YARMOUTH, March 11.—Wind S. W.—Arrrived—Water loo, from London for Alexandria, leaky, and with crew refractory. SUNDERLAND, March 1 0.--Wind S.W.—Sailed—Ever green, for Malts. HOLYHEAD, March 11.—Wind N.W.--Arrived—Bag dad Packet, from Liverpool for Havannah. Or MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Sailed, March 12—Hanover, steamer, for Calais; Seine et Tamise, steamer, for Paris. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Catherine and Margaret, from Port Maddock, for Copenhagen ; Oriental, from Falmouth, for Loudon ; Hero, of Weyuaouth, from th e north, for the west; Regina, of London, from Deme rar k, for London ; Indies, Greek brig, from London, for Swansea. THE PRIEST AND THE CONSTABLE.-011 the 9th of December last a Protestant constable named Wiggins, stationed at Dundrum, in the county of Tipperary, then almost in a dying state, sent for a Roman Catholic priest, and the Rev. W. Corcoran went at once to the police barracks to receivo him into his Church and admini• ster to him the sacraments. Sub-Inspector Boyce, in command of the station, refused to admit the priest till he had communicated with his superior officer, because Wiggins had been a Protestant all his life, and had just been visited by the Protestant clergyman, and he seemed to be then in too weak a state to understand what he was about. Mr. Corcoran made his way into the sick man's room, but was obliged to withdraw immediately, at Mr. Boyce's request. .Aided by the man's wife and a Roman Catholic policemen he subsequently endeavoured to force his way upstairs, but was firmly though gently repulsed. The priest was, however, freely admitted next day, and the con stable died a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The temporary exclusion of the priest caused a great deal of popular excitement in the n eighbourhood, and Mr. Corcoran made a formal complaint to the Government against Mr. Boyce, The Lord-Lieutenant ordered a court of inquiry, which lasted about a fortnight, and the result has just been made public. It came to the conclusion, from the evidence, that sub-inspector Boyce had unwarrantably obstructed Mr. Corcoran in the discharge of his duty as a clergyman, and denied to the deceased constable liberty to receive the religious consolation he sought for; but, taking the entire report and the evidence adduced before it, Lord Carlisle tchean however, is of opinion that he is may fairly be attributed to an to any perverse or i m p ro per cdeyore y' serving of som e censure " f or th e thinksomerfmotive. opinion otiry o of judgment the HthiconductsaEthx he is ei Excellency, rather t "deserving course he took in even temporarily excluding the priest from the constable after he had expressed hie determination to become a Roman Catholic. He has, therefore, given orders to the Inspector General of Constabulary that the Sub-Inspector "shall be reprimanded, and removed from Dundrum to another station!' -- WHY WE SHOULD EAT T RUFFLES.—What the spices of the tropics did for the art of cookery towards the close of the 15th and first half of the 16th cen turies, the rediscovery of the truffle has done for it in the Champagne a dish at every supper—a last half of the 18th and in the present century. It was in 1720, in the early part of the reign o f Louis ..._,.., X N that Dubouis, the minister, introduced at his dinner those a;l2leonwtedofmuch of the keen shrewd ., diamants de lacuisine," and the Duke of Orleans made w hich, nearly a century t d r i z s i eZ a t the vine daily de ex C ij k o later, that prince of diners, Talleyrand, is believed by all profound thinkers to h a ve ness of his intellect. For truffles,beit tureomreemcbleearerd;The "en liven the mind, exhilarate the spirits, a ss i st the digestion, and render the reasoning faculties Reader. F°R.T writes, il e under date of the Chicago corres pondentWOß of f Il EN the S Heto Dl Y N o G ric Times lsth ult. :—" A gentleman arrived in thi s c i ty from Idaho last week says that when he left was X 15,000,000 dole, i n gold in the h an d s of the miners, awaiting the means of transportation to the States." MADAME RATAZZI'S BALL DRESS. --The Italian journals relate the following incident which occur red!cuoue among th e l a di es was very striking toilette composed of a at a b a ll g i ven a t Milan, during Vi c t or E mmanuel? , v u is a i d t a t m o e th ß a a t t c a i z ty zi . in M s o v st er c white satin tunic embroidered with silver lilies, and accom panied by eight puffed tulle skirts, of which the upper one was studded with floss silk bouquets, each having three marabout feathers in the centre. Her head-dress consisted of a cluster of marabout feathers, attached by her splendid ruby, which is known among the m as t famous gems in Europe as the "Duo Genevois." Madame Ratazzi's dress was so voluminous that the King could not help rallying her on the su bj ec t. His Majesty wa s l oo k ing for M. Ratazzi, and,notflnidnciinugirhed, 44 Where is M. R atazzi ? Is it pos sible , be accosted M adame Ratazzi and laughinglysible that he can have disappeared under your cress ? This sally of his Majesty was, of course, followed by a universal laugh. The Waters of the Seine have reached the height of 2 1 metres by the settle at the Pout Royal. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, March 11.—The market continues very fiat and drooping. In shipping yarns only a very limited business has been done. There have been some offers, but at prices too low to meet with . consideration from spinner s . W e have heard of one or two contracts for 40's for delivery this month and in April, at a moderately fair price, but gene• rally buyers appear more disposed to operate where there are available stocks than where goods have to be produced. There are a good number of orders in the hands of merchants, which they have not confi dence enough to place at present prices. If they could be sure that yarns had reached the lo west point they would no doubt give out such order, but an im pression still prevails that all descriptions of cotton goods will continue to decline, and purchasers limit their demands to such only as are more pressingly required. Home-trade yarns are quoted the same as on Tuesday, and if there is any change it is in favour of buyers. In cloth the same dull feeling prevails to day as on Tuesday. There is almost a total absence of business for all markets; and though the continued decline of prices is attracting the attention of buyera they appear quite as disinclined to do busi ness as they have been at any time during this month past. The consequence of this inactivity is that prices are again somewhat easier, though in the absence of business to test them it would be difficult to give reliable quotations. Messrs. Pender and Co., in their semi-monthly circular for India of Wednesday, say the dulness reported at the close of last month has gradually increased, and during the past week has amounted to positive stagnation. They add that " quotations are now irregular and rather lower, though comparatively little affected in consequence of the smallness of stocks and the moderate extent of production." They report that in Calcutta goods, during the past fortnight, only a few sales of light fabrics are reported, while the sales for China are trifling. For Bombay business limited-39 inch nib. gray shirtings, 12s 9d to 13s 3d ; 71b, 17s to 18s; wide shirtings dull at 2s 6d to 2s 7id per lb; long cloths nominal at 28 3d to 2s 4d per lb. India yarns ld per lb. down in the last fortnight. NOTTINGHAM, 11th,--There was a moderate de mand for lace yarns at this Exchange-hall to-day, and late rates were well maintained. The change in the value of hosiery yarns was unimportant. Silks as before. For brown nets the demand was very flat, but the rates of last week must be quoted. Antiquity of Man, To complete the subject treated of in our number of Thursday, we must notice a paper by M. de Vibraye sent in to the Academy of Sciences at the same time as that of Messrs. Lartat and Christy. M. de Vibraye, while confirming some of the state ments of those gentlemen from his own observation, adds some new facts of peculiar interest. We have seen primitive man armed with flints; M. de Vibraye shows that although he had no knowledge of metallurgy, he was well aware of the existence of metal, although the drift strata are not me- talliferous. In the lower bed of the grottoes of Arcy (Yonne), containing the bones of the ex tinct Ursus spelaus, or fossil bear, our author found a fragment of hydrated iron, exactly si milar to a specimen discovered in a cromlech at La Birochire, near Pornic (Loire-Inferieure; the same bed also contained a piece of peroxide pf man ganese. Two similar specimens were brought to light in the Fournean du Diable at Bourdeilles (a reindeer stratum) ; and lastly, a email mass of pure copper, almost entirely covered with a coating of green carbonate of copper, and cubic crystals of protoxyde of the same metal was dug up in the drift of Laugerie, in the commune of Tayac. M. de Vibraye is decidedly of opinion that some com merce existed in those remote times, because the various manufactured articles found in the drift often lie together with sea-shells, which could only have come from the coast, the drift being of too modern formation to admit of any other explanation of the circumstance. Our author also mentions the discovery of a human atlas (the first vertebra of the neck) amidst an accumulation of bones of the hyena and other extinct species; a fact which tends to carry man's first appearance upon earth several thousand years farther back than any historical record in existence. Among other sin gular discoveries we must not forget to mention a small statue representing a woman, and carved out of an elephant's tads—a wonderful feat, consider ing that it could only have been achieved with fl►nt implements. The drift is sometimes found to cover places where fires had been made, and the ashes and cinders revealing the fact lie on blocks of limestone foreign to the district, and evidently chosen ex pressly on account of their power of resisting the effects of heat. M. de Vibraye does not hesitate to admit the existence of man during the geological drift period, and considers the question definitively set at rest.— Galignani. Governor And Mrs. T. T. Stevenstone have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. Conseiller Tartonffe and M. de Reyneaus have arrived at tho Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris BARON ROTILSCHILD.—In reply to many inquiries with reference to the absence of Baron Rothschild from his Parliamentary duties, we have to state that it is caused through ill health.— City Press. The marriage of Miss Gore, daughter of Gen. the Hon. Sir C. Gore, with her cousin, Colonel Ricb, of the 71st Highlanders, great grandson of the late Arthur Saunders, Earl of Arran, was celebrated on Thursday at St. John's Church, Kensington. the bridesmaids were Lady Cecil Hay, Lady Anne Duff, Lady Caroline Gore, Hon. Emily Cathcart, Miss Throckmorton, Miss Gore, Miss Randulf, Miss Shiel, Miss Mutkerke and Miss Stothard. The bride was given away by her gallant father. ETON FOOTBALL.—EtOn football is very different from that of Rugby. They do not allow the ball to be Qaught or carried, nor one player to be held, struck, or pushed by another. They have no cross-bar, and in their matches only 11 players are allowed on each side. Their game is at the head of what is called the close system. They commence a game with a bully in the middle of the field, One player on each side, chosen for his skill and speed in running, is placed at the goals to guard them. Two others act as cornerers, to keep the ball in the bullies. The other eight form themselves into a compact wall, two deep, standing shoulder to shoulder, with heads bent down and hands on knees, each side facing the opponent's goal. The ball is placed between these two lines at their toes by one of the comerers. Then they push and struggle, each side trying to bear the other down, and drive the ball through the ranks. With sides of equal strength, these struggles are often protracted. When the bully is broken up, all is fair kicking at the ball, but every player must keep on the right side, and must avoid sneak ing—that is, kicking the ball along with less than three of his opponents before him. A goal so sneaked does not count. A goal is counted where the ball passes between two poles 11 feet wide. Whenever a ball is kicked out at the side-lines, it is brought straight in, and a bully is formed on the spot. When it passes the goal-line there is a race to touch it. If one of the side to whom the goal belongs first touches it, it is carried to the edge and kicked oft into the middle of the ground again; but if an oppo nent touches it first, the grand feature of the Eton game ensues : the ball is plaoed one yard in front of the centre of the place marked out by the goal-sticks of the side where the ball was touched. The players close up, each side forming a semicircle, with their strongest men in front. They meet each other, the ball being in the centre of these, and then push, kick, and struggle, till the weaker side gives way and goes down, the other side falling on the top of them, and the ball being somewhere beneath. In this position they carry on the battle, and continue to writhe and struggle, trying on the one side to creep the goal and drag the ball with them, on the other to drive it away. These struggles sometimes continue for 10 minutes. Players get exhausted, and creep out; wipe the beads of perspiration from their faces; and plunge down again with renewed vigour, till at last the ball is dragged through the goal or got away, when every body gets up and declares it very jolly,—Chantbers's Jour nal, New and Improved Series. LETTERS FROM IRELAND AND THE CONTINENT.— The Postmaster - General has made arrangements by which letters brought by the Irish and French night mails, which arrive too late for the first delivery, will now be sent out for distribution in all parts of London at about nine a.m., or a little after ; being, except in the East Central District, about an hour earlier than heretofore. This deli very will also include letters posted up to 6 30 a.m., at the receiving houses and pillar letter boxes in the suburbs nearest London. HIGH SPRING TlDES.—Yesterday the tide at Liverpool rose to an unnzuel height, and washed over some of the more exposed piers and abutments. There was a strong westerly wind, which appeared to be increas ing last evening, so that there was a probability of a still higher midnight tide. The ei h • ht reached was nearl y 21 $ feet, Business don< log I I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. CITY BETTING—THIS DAY. N ORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES, Bto 1 agst Lioness (taken) 10 to 1 agat Blithfield (taken) 13 to 1 agst Gardener (taken) 14 to 1 agat Dollar (taken) 16 to 1 agst Fairwater (taken) 20 to 1 agst Tonoh-and-Go 20 to 1 agst Gibraltar Very little betting. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY SPRING RACES.-^-FRIDAY. The Hawkstone Cup (handicap), value 100 sovs, by sub. scription of 10 sovs each. One mile Mr Walker's Le Mareehal, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (Loates) 1 Lord Bateman's Despair, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Fordham) 2 Betting-2 to lon Despair. La Marechal made all the running :and won in a canter by a length and a half, the favourite never being able to get on any terms with him. The Borough Members' Plate (handicap) of 50 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and up wards. About 1 mile. 5 subs. Mr Walker's Colonel Crockett, 6 yrs, 7st 21b (Tomlinson) 1 Mr Capers Bright Cloud, 4 yrs, Tat 51b (Loates) 2 Lord Uxbridge's Jupon, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Hulne) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Bright Cloud, and 2to 1 agst Colonel Crockett. Jupon made the running, followed by Colonel Crockett and Bright Cloud to the turn, where the latter went to the front, but was soon afterwards headed by the Colonel, who had his horses safe at the stand, and won in the commonest of canters by 15 lengths; a length between the second and third. The Attingham Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Three-quarters of a mile. 4 subs. Mr Mansfield's Damascus, 6 yrs, Bst 91b.... (T. French) 1 Mr Griffith's Little Saxon, 3 yrs, 7st 2lb ....., (Sayers) 0 Betting-5 to lon Damascus, who made the whole of he running, and Little Saxon falling on rounding the turn, the favourite cantered in alone. The Shropshire Sweepstakes (handicap) of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 60 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; the second saved his stake. Shropshire Course If mile. 7 subs. Mr K. Walker's Le Marichal, 4' yrs, 7st 101 b (in. 141 b extra) (Loatea) 1 Lord Bateman's Despair, 5 yrs, Bst llb (includ 51b extra) (Ford ham) 2 Lord Westmoreland's Aurelian, 6 yrs, 9st (in 141 b extra) (J. Water) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agat Aurelian, 9to 4 agst Despair, and 6 to 2 agat Le Marechal. Le Marechal made play, followed by Despair and Aure lian, the latter shortly afterwards taking second place. In this order 'they came into the straight, and opposite the stand Despair rushed to the leader's quarters, but never succeeded in quite getting up, Le Marechal winning a Site race by a head; three parts of a length between the second and third. The Spring Steeplechaae of 100 Bove, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 10 sous each, sft; the second saved his state. About 3i miles. Mr Court's Vivandiere, 6 yrs, lOst 9lb .... (W White) 1 Mr Hervey's Hermit, aged, lOst 91b (Knott) 2 Jorry and DE Reuter also ran. Betting-6 to 4 aget Vivandiere, 2to 1 agst De Reuter, and 3 to 1 agst Hermit. Hermit jumped off with a strong lead, Vivandiere lying second, and Jerry and Da Reuter in the order named. Hermit maintained the lead during the whole of the first and second rounds, Vivandiere and De Reuter alter nately occupying second position, but Jerry tiring early in the race, pulled up in the last turn ; De Reuter, who had been going rather unkindly, refused at the road in the middle of the last round. The race was left to Hermit and Vivandiere, the latter winning by ten lengths. The Selling Hurdle Race of 3 sovs each, with 20 added for 3-yr-olds and upwards; weight for age, with selling allowances. lt miles, over six flights of hurdles. 6 subs. Mr Barber's Cutler, 5 yrs, 12st 21b (25 soya) .... (Knott) 1 Mr Bird's Lady of the Isles, 4 yrs, list 41b (25 Boys) (Sharp) 2 Mr Parkinson's Kiss Me Quick, 6 yrs, 12st 71b (50 sovs) (Grosvenor) 3 Betting-4 to lon Cutler. Lady of the Isles made the most of the running, followed by Kiss-me-Quick and Cutler. Kiss-me-Quick died away at the distance, and Cutler won in a canter by eight lengths, four lengths between the second and third. The Longner Steeplechase, a handicap plate of 60 sons. 2i miles. Lord Uxbridge's Marble Hill, 5 yrs, lOst 91b (Mr Edwards) 1 Mr Holman's Over the Sea, aged, lOst 21b (G. Holman) 3 Mr Newman's Paroquet, 105 t.,. ... (G. White) 3 Mr Griffich's Whiteless, aged, lOst 21b (Meadow) 4 Pot Pourri also ran. Betting-6 to 4on Over the Sea, sto 2 agst Paroquet, 4 to 1 agst Marble Hill. Over the Sea took the lead, followed by Paroquet and Marble Hill; and the favourite kept his position until enter ing the straight, where Marble Hill went to the front, and won by a length; a bad third, BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY. The attendance of subscribers here to-day was very small, and betting was little more than nominal. The only horse backed was Lioness for the Northamptonshire Stakes, 13 to 2 being taken freely. Closing prices:— THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 6to 1 agst Lioness (offered)-13 to 2 taken freely 100 to 9on the field, bar one—(offered) AQUATICS. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. Yesterday the Oxonians rowed for the first time over the course, from Putney to Mortlake, destined for this interesting event on the 19th inst., but never did a crew make its debut upon the water under more disadvantageous circumstances. The wind was blowing half a gale from the westward, and, meeting and flanking the flood, rendered the water so ex tremely rough and lumpy, that had not the oars bean tied into the rowlocks, they could scarcely have been kept at work. There was a very large assemblage of old University and other gentlemen, including a number of Churchmen, present to witness this the first trial over the course, The crew got into their boat at the London Rowing Club boat house at a little before 4, and proceeded down to opposite the Star and Garter, where they turned and prepared to go off. The start, under the difficulties that they had to encounter, Ns , as exceedingly good, but the labour for the first 300 or 400 yards was so severe trs to create a great amount of irregularity, and with aught but the high action of the oars incidental to the Oxford style it would have been impossible to have cleared.them from the water, and it was generally supposed that they would abandon their in tention of proceeding the whole distance, but they gallantly Pursued their way, although momentarily covered with spray, and with their boat at last waterlogged, their wash break forward having been carried away by the roughness of the water, and arrived at Mortlake thoroughly drenched g few seconds under 27 minutes, with a bad tide. The crews, with their present weights, are as follows : OXFORD. st lb C. P. Roberts, Trinity W. Awdry, Balliol F. H. Kelley, University J. C. Parson, Trinity W. B. Jacobson, Christ Church l2 7 A. E. Seymour, University,... ll 7 M. Brown, Trinity D. Pocklington, Brasenose C. R. Tottenham, Christ Church (cox) 7 0 CAMBRIDGE. at lb J. C. Hawkshaw, Trinity E. Y. Pigott, Corpus .. 11 11 H. Watson, Pembroke l2 8 W. W. Hawkins, St. John's R. A. Kinglake, Trinity G. Borthwick, Trinity F. Stevenson, Tria. Hall l2 1 J. R. Selwyn, Trinity G. H. Archer, Corpus, (c 05.)...... -•• • • • 6 6 It will bo seen by the above that several alterations have taken place in the Cambridge boat since the crew was last noticed. They have been throughout the week training at Ely, where they have had to encounter very severe weather. It has been arranged that they shall come to Putney this evening, and it is expected their first turn over the course will be on Monday afternoon. Betting is 7t04 on Oxford, and is brisk. MR. BROOKS, M.P,—We (Dorset Chronicle) regret to announce the serious illness of Robert Brooke, Esq., M.P. for Weymouth, who has been confined to his room for the last ten days; but we are happy to add that he is now rapidly recov erin g , and his medical at tendants give every hope that in the course of a few days he will be enabled to leave his room and attend, as usua l , to his Parliamentary duties. His illness at the present moment was the more to be regretted, as it prevented him from voting in favour of Colonel Edwards's motion, and against the insult put upon the members of the Yeomanry Cavalry by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Govern ment, and the Liberal party, in obedience to the orders of the Manchester. clique. Lieutenant Fleury , Who Vi'Ss some months since tried for the murder of a washerwoman in the Pas sage de Cherbourg, and mademned to twenty years' im prisonment with military degradation and surveillance of the police, but whose sentence:was annulled on an infor mality in receiving part of the evidence, has just been tried again by the Military Tribunal. The evidence given was exactly to the same effect as on the first trial. Ihe Tribunal found the prisoner guilty with extenuating cir cumstances, and cond e mn e d hi m to on l y ten years,inapri sonment, inst ea d o f twenty, with military degradation and surveillance of the police as on the first trial. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPAIN. MADRID, March 11.—The question of the Aid aides Railway, which has been again brought forward by M. Salamanca, has just been definitively set elide by the Cortes, who hive adopted by a majority of 105 to 28 the Ardanaz propositicii, which restricts the rights of individual initiative relative to demands for concession of new lines. Hampstead, Midland, and ' North-Western Charing-cross Junction Railway. The joint committee of the Houses of Lords and Commons having reported that this bill should be allowed to proceed, daring the present session of Parliament, the owners, lessees, and occupiers of property to be pulled down, or injuriously affected, to form new streets from the Thames Embankment, at the foot of Villiers-street, across the Strand, and through the parishes of St. Martin-in-the- Fields and St. Giles - in - the-Fields, to Tottenham-court road, held a meeting yesterday, in St. Martin's Hall, to consider what steps should be taken by the parties inte rested to protect themselves from injury to their property, and loss of their trade, during the progress, or on the com pletion of the works, and to ensure adequate compensation for the same, and for that purpose to obtain insertion in the bill of such clauses and provisions as may be necessary. The chair was taken at three o'clock by Mr. 1 hord aa i N n V - ld o t o h l e l_e F y i l‘ e iar s. shall, one of the churchwardens of St. Martin- The CRAIRMAN said they had met that afternoon to take into their consideration a matter to many of them of vital importance, viz., the destruction and obstruction that would be occasioned if Parliament 'gave its sanc tion to the proposed new railway. Whilst railway way interests were well organised, the unfortunate per sons whose property was required in the majority of in ' stances were totally helpless owing to their union. They had all heard of the scheme which would so interfere with their property and business, and without they took some very active steps they would be left totally at the mercy of the railway directors. He did not want anything but what was right, and with less than that he did not for one mojnent intend to rest satisfied. There were about 47 railway directors amongst the members of the House of Lords, and 157 in the House of Commons, so they were well enough represented, but what was the position of the owners of property in the line of a proposed railway ? Why they were totally uncared for, and the only way they had of making themselves heard was by opposing the measure in committee. He thought it would be perfectly useless after the report of the joint committee of both Houses of Parlia ment, to attempt to oppose the scheme which would so largely interfere with business, but they could fight for their interests inch by inch in the committee, and that was the course he thought the inhabitants of the two parishes had better pursue. He did not want, as he said before, anything unreasonable, but what he did say was that the railway directors should pay a sovereign for every sovereign's worth of the property they took, (Hear, hear.) Mr. DINGEILFIELD then, at the request of the chairman, explained the exact position of the matter, and the various ways of obtaining the insertion of protecting clauses or alteration of others by the parliamentary committee, which the parishioners could adopt. A number of the most influential gentlemen in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields then addressed the meeting, after which it was determined to make a most vigorous opposition to some of the clauses of the bill in committee, and a number of gentlemen were selected to act on behalf of the meeting in obtaining the necessary protection for those whose property or business was likely to be interfered with by the railway. During the meeting it was stated that no less that 400 properties in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and St. Giles's, involving the interests of more than 1,000 families, would be required by the parties making the pro posed new railway. The meeting, which was a most numerous and deter mined one, then separated after a vote of thanks to the chairman. LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening. FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 8. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ginseppe Biagi as Consul at Melbourne, Australia, for his Majesty the Kilt of Italy.. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. L. Bucholz as Consul in the New Zealand Islands for his Majesty the King of Denmark, DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 10. The Queen has been - pleased to appoint Joseph William Trutch, Esq., to be Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-General for the colony of British Columbia ; and James Joseph Drysdale, Esq., to be Pro. vost-Marshal for the Island of Antigua. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 11. Admiral of the Blue Sir George Robert Lambert, K.C.8., has been appointed to receive a pension of £l5O a-year, as provided by her Majesty's Order in Council of the 25th Jane, 1851, vacant by the death of Admiral William Manley Hall Dixon, and the name of Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert has been removed to the Reserved Half-pay List accordingly. In consequence of that removal the fol lowing promotions, dated the bth instant, have been made : Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Thos. Hastings, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Rel. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Joseph Nias, C. 8., to be Vice- Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red John Kingcome to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Thomas Leeke Massie to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue John Adams to be Rear- Admiral of the White. Captain Henry Mangles Denham to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. BANKRUPTS The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in thejtiazette : John Jordan, baker, Bethnal-green Jon Freeman, furniture broker, Bedford Edward Denham, irontouuder, Manchester Henry Bambar, musicseller, Saeffield Edward Brooks, painter, Southport Richard Lewis, butcher, Liverpool Walter Frisbee, salesman, Farringdon-market Thomas Turner, burgeon, Leeds Samuel Chapman, butcher, Norwich George Robbins, watchmaker, Huntingdon William B. Colston, currier, Bristol James C. Chown, baker, Exeter John M. Davies, tailor, Gresham-street Thos. Boakes, dealer in shares. Upper Holloway BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. William Henry Child, builder, Here:ord Course of the Exchange.—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 12 0 12 Of Antwerp — 25 65 25 67f Brussels — 25 65 25 67i flamburgh — 13 7i 13 8 Paris Ditto .. 3 Months, 25 65 25 72 _ _ Marseilles 25_ _67f 25 _72f _ _ Frankfort on Maine Vienna Trieste Petersbnrgh 1191 - 1191 12 35 12 40 12 35 12 40 33 33i Berlin - Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 48 4S 47h 48} 25 80 25 85 25 80 25 85 Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 25 80 25 85 25 82i 25 87i 25 82} 25 8 7i 25 82i 25 87 Lisbon Oporto...- . s2i Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £ 3 17 a 0 Mexican Dollars 3 .............. 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) .................. 0 0 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. M ar. 20. Arazil and Ca via Marseilles ... M ar. 14. pe Verds, by British packet. April 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 30. ahina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton M ar . 20 . via Marseilles Mar. 14. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 20. via Marseilles M a r. 14. India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13. via Marseilles mar. 22, Portugal.... April b. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton )tar. 13. via Marseilles Mar. 14. Newfoundland ..Mar. 16. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Mar. 10, ' by U.S. packet by Canadian packet. Mar. 11. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Termitic Mar. 10. Bahamas, via New York Mar. 11, Mexico ....Mar. 15. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru , 1 Mar. 30. California. and British C01umbia............ THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, ST. HELENA, AND ASCENSION.—As many letters for the Cape of Good Hope, N a t a l, St. Helena, and Ascension continue to ship, places, ar when not speci a ll y forwarded by mail g e, andvizF areor a le letter be posted ins u ff ic i en tly prepaid, tte public are r em i nded directed that letters tobe anyfo s r entby ofpr private e e chargeable with the foll ow i ng rates of tanot exceeding dos, is—above loz, 2s—above loz, an d not exceed p packet, os: _ toz and not exceeding lioz, 36—above lfoz, and not exceeding voz, 4P.—Z . Or every additional loz, Is. In all cases where the whole postage is not paid in advance the letters are charged, on delivery, with an additional rate of ls, besides the amount of the de ficient postage. - i 521 -i B'ook Share Ivu Sk stock steak stook 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook stook 100 - 100 10 stook stock stock 20 stock 50 100 stock stock. 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